Deselecting made the panel jump to the swatch of the paint new art gets
(White). It now keeps the deselected art's swatch until the paints for new
art change (a swatch or colour picked with nothing selected) or another
document shows; selecting other art highlights its swatch.
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The editing data's palette (%AI5_BeginPalette) was skipped, so a .ai file
opened with the default swatches plus only the spot colours its art used:
inks the art doesn't use (a Pantone set kept in the file) and colour groups
were lost. The palette is now read in order (process, spot in CMYK, RGB or
Lab, and global colours, gradients and patterns, colour groups; versioned
content read once) and replaces the default swatches.
Xs/Xz (Registration at a tint, as printer's marks use it) are read as the
Registration swatch: before, art painted with them stopped the editing data
from being read at all.
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Picking the two points of a Linear dimension snapped to anchors and to the
line under the pointer, but showed no guides and ignored the art around it.
The picks now go through the drawing tools' Smart Guides (DrawSnap), hovering
too, so the guides show before each click: a point slides into line with other
objects' anchors and centres, and the second onto the construction guides
through the first. An anchor of the line under the pointer still wins (it
links the dimension to that path), then a guide, then the closest point of the
line (#2432). The guides go once the dimension is being placed.
Test: linear_picks_show_and_snap_to_smart_guides (fails on the old tool, which
showed no overlays while hovering). docs/dimensions.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When an agent followed the trace-and-style prompt step by step, it
failed at the second step: open_file leaves the image unselected, so
imageTrace.make returned "nothing selected". The text did not say that
the Default preset traces in black and white. No step expanded the
trace, so the source image stayed in the document. The set_paint step
gave every traced shape the same paint. Step 2 also said that
screenshots show the Image Trace view, while render_preview and
screenshot without window draw the tracing result. Step 1 said that
the image opens at its own pixel size, while an image that declares a
resolution opens at its size at that resolution.
The steps now select the image with select.all (or name its id), say
which presets keep colors, expand the trace with imageTrace.expand or
imageTrace.makeAndExpand, recolor with recolor.colors and recolor.apply,
and check the result with render_preview or screenshot. The prompt's
name, arguments and defaults are unchanged.
With model "keep" (the default), a row whose new color is in another
color model gives linked art the color converted into the art's model.
That art no longer stays linked to the rewritten group swatch, which
holds the color in its own model, and the reply's note reports the
conversion.
When recolor.apply with a group rewrites a global swatch with another
color than the row of the art linked to it, and that row leaves the art's
color as it is, the art now keeps the row's color and is no longer linked
to the swatch. Before, the link stayed and the group's rewrite gave the
art the swatch's new color.
Art linked to a global swatch of the group that recolor.apply rewrites stays
linked when the swatch takes its row's new color: it shows that color at its
tint, and a later swatch.edit still reaches it. Before, the art took the new
color unlinked. With group, the reply adds relinked, the count of other linked
paints that followed the group's new colors.
With Use Artboards and two or more artboards, EPS export now writes a
central file under the path's own name before the file of each artboard.
The central file contains the whole document, and its bounding box is
the visible art, as in an export without Use Artboards. An export of a
single chosen artboard still writes one file at the path's name, and
Export for Screens still writes one EPS per artboard. When no art shows,
only the artboard files are written.
Docs: the useArtboards params text, the MCP export tool's range text,
docs/mcp.md, docs/control-protocol.md and docs/target-app-parity.md.
document.find took only name, kind and text, so removing hairline slivers or
every object in one region needed the whole inspect tree and a filter
written outside the app. It now also takes within and intersects
([x, y, width, height] in document points), min and max width, height,
thickness (the smaller side) and area of the geometric bounds, and min and
max anchor count (a compound path counts its members together). Each given
filter must match, and limits are inclusive.
select: true also selects the matches, leaving out hidden and locked
objects, matches inside another match, and compound path members unless
the compound path is isolated; the reply adds selected. Select > Reselect
repeats the find, and an action being recorded records a find that
selects. The count that select.color, the Select > Same commands and the
Select > Object commands report is now the number of objects selected,
after Lock Guides leaves out guide paths.
Every change in the Image Trace panel traced the selected Image Trace
object again at once, and there was no way to adjust several settings
first and trace once.
The panel now has a Preview checkbox before Trace. It is on by default
and kept with the UI preferences; Reset to Default leaves it. With
Preview off, setting changes wait in the panel until Trace applies them
as one undo step, or until Preview is turned on again. When Preview is
turned on with no Image Trace object selected, the object is traced
with the waiting changes when it is selected again. A change of view
keeps the waiting settings, and selecting another Image Trace object
shows that object's own settings. The control channel's ui.set takes
imageTracePreview.
To check what it kept for a live object, or for effect art made from
live objects, type or symbols, the renderer walked the object in every
frame to hash the symbols, patterns and placed files it shows, and it
looked up each symbol instance it found by name in the list of every
symbol. At 1000 x 1000 pixels, the walk took most of the frame on a
page of 2,000 envelopes around instances of the last 2,000 of 10,000
symbols: 83 ms a frame when every frame walked them.
The renderer now keeps what the walk found with the node, which it
holds weakly, and with the document's symbols and patterns as the walk
read them. A later frame makes the key from what was kept while the
node and the document's symbols and patterns stay the same, and walks
the node again when any of them changes. A walk that finds a placed
file is not kept. An evaluation that the live cache does not keep, such
as a thumbnail's copy, is no longer walked. The same page now takes
30 ms a frame, with the same pixels.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md
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